clipped from: theagencyblog.typepad.com   

In the past, when I saw a news story about someone who had committed a crime or had passed away with supporting footage of a social network page, I would wonder about whether the page would be taken down or not. Apparently not. As it turns out, the ghosts of social networkers live on after they pass on to the big social network in the sky. These profiles drift on in cyberspace, the dead with the living, many times unnoticed by the casual web surfer.